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No. 856,799. PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

J. P. OGONNBR & J. E. WRIGHT. I

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

JOHN P. OCONNER AND JAMES E. WRIGHT, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed April 30,1906. Serial No. 314,528.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN P. OCoNNER and JAMES E. WRIGHT, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and Stateof Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inStamps; and we do declare the following to be a full; clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which itjjappertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in hand stamps used by post officeemployees and others.

The objectfiof the invention is to improve and simplify the constructionand operation of devices of this character, and thereby render the samemore efficient and durable in use and less expensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists ofcertain novel fea tures of construction, combination and ar rangement ofparts, as will be; hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a view, showing theapplication of our improved hand stamp; Fig. 2 is a sectional viewthrough the same, showing a modified form of hand grip applied to it andFig. 3 is a detail view of the stamping and inking rollers and thecasing or holder within which they are mounted.

The embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawings is inthe form of a hand stamp, especially adapted for the use of post officeemployees, for stamping upon the letters that they have handled, theirindividual mark, but within the scope of the invention it mayijbeadapted for other uses. As shown, the device comprises a hand grip 1, aspring 2 connected thereto and a casing or holder 3, which is carried bysaid spring and contains a marking roller and means for supplying ink tothe same. The hand grip 1 shown in Fig. 1, comprises a strap or otherflexible connection 4 adapted to be passed around the users hand and tohave its ends adjustably connected by a buckle 5 or any other suitablefastening means. Upon the outer face of a portion of the strap 4 issecured a metal plate 6, to which one end of the spring 2 is secured bya screw or the like 7.

Instead of using the strap 1 as a hand grip, we may employ a resilientmetal loop 8, which is shaped to fit the hand, as clearly shown in Fig.2 of the drawings. The spring 2 is curved or shaped as shown, to permita large bundle of letters to be held in the hand as seen in Fig. 1, sothat as they are successively drawn out from beneath the stamping ormarking device 3, the number or other mark upon the inking roller ofsaid device will be imprinted upon each letter.

The device 3 comprises a substantially U- shaped frame 10, which hasjournaled between its two sides 11, a marking roller 12, preferably inthe form of a small rubber cylinder formed in its periphery withdepressions of any description, which make the desired numbers,characters or marks upon the letters or other papers to be marked. Thismarking roller has its peri hery projecting beyond the outer edges of t1e sides 11 of the frame or holder 10 and it runs in contact with aninking roller 13, which is in the form of a cylindrical pad of felt orthe like secured upon a shaft or roller journaled between the sides 11.Ink is sup lied to the inking roller or pad 13 from an in reservoir orreceptacle 14, which has a tapered bottom terminating in an openingdisposed close to the periphery of the roller 13. Said reservoir isadapted to contain cotton or other absorbent material 15 to hold theink, and the latter may be squeezed out of the same and onto the roller13 by pressing such absorbent material with a pencil or the like. Theink reservoir is adjustably mounted u on the central portion 16, whichconnects t ie sides 11 of the frame 10, by forming upon it a slotted orbifurcated arm 18, which is adapted to hook over said ortion 16 and toengage aclamping screw 19 wiich adjustably connects the frame 10 to oneof the slotted arms of an angle bracket 20. The other slotted arm ofthis bracket is adjustably connected by means of a screw 21 to the outeror free end of the spring 2. By mounting the inking apparatus in thismanner upon the spring, it will be seen that it may be adjusted at anyangle desired.

The construction, use and advantages of this invention will be readilyunderstood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccom anying drawings. It will be seen that when t 10 device is appliedto the hand as shown in Fig. 1, and a bundle of letters are held in thehand beneath the inking and marking roller frame, said letters may besuccessively stamped or marked by successively removing the uppermostletter. The resiliency of the spring 2 will keep the marking roller incontact with the upper- ITO most letter as the pack or bundle diminishesin size.

The different parts of the device may be made of any suitable materialand in any suitable size according to the size and shape of the handupon which they are to be used.

Various other changes in the form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, as defined by theappended claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is

1. In combination with a stamping device having a revoluble markingroller, a device to grip the hand, and a spring connecting the grippingdevice and the stamping device and serving to press the marking rollerof the latter against the object to be stamped held in the hand, andhence causing said roller, when said object is moved, to be rotated andto stam or mark upon such object.

2. n combination with a stamping device including a revoluble markingroller and having a loop to pass around the hand, and a spring armconnecting the loop and the stamping device and serving to press themarking roller against the object to be stamped and held in the hand,and hence causing said roller, when said object is moved, to be rotatedand to stamp the mark upon such object.

3. A device of the character described comprising a hand grip, a springthereon, an angle bracket adjustably mounted upon the free end of saidframe, a substantially U- shaped frame adjustably mounted u on saidbracket, a marking roller journale in said frame, an inking rollerjournaled in said frame and in contact with said marking roller, and anink reservoir adjustably secured in said frame, substantially as shownand described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOHN P. OCONNER. JAMES E. WRIGHT.

WVitnesses:

ALEX. G. CHARLTON, BROWER E. M. CAGUE.

